Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled

The picture of the boy and girl with the snowman, I drew this back in either 1991 or 1992. So I would have been around 7 to 9. This was part of the four drawings I did, one of each season. My homeroom teacher encouraged me to draw these and sent them to a charity organization, thousands of entries were sent and only 4 or 6 would be selected and they would be developed into a variety of stationary materials. Their biggest line-up was the greeting cards and the winter-themed drawing I did was selected.

I recently was shown this by my grandmother, my talent as an artist has gone a long way since then. I guess you could say it was good for a barely 8-year-old kid at the time, but I’ve done better. One day, I’ll have to dive into these old boxes in the basement and have all the old memories flood back into my head. I had a lot of fun back then as a kid. Though I still do have a lot of fun today, but it’s just in a different way. I remember what it was like, and it was more carefree and we didn’t care about looking stupid in public. As adults, we bear more responsibilities for our actions, and we aren’t as innocent.

Life, it has its share of advantages of disadvantages but we get to make our own choices and that’s the biggest advantage of being an adult. Though there are always the potential consequences. If we are too afraid to take risks in our lives, we may never get what we aim for. To make something happen, you usually have to take risks.

Back to the subject on the drawing and the contest, I was really thrilled at the time when I was told that I had been selected. I did receive some prizes including a t-shirt and more. I also got a framed certificate as recognition. There aren’t really much to share on this, except that it was one of my best childhood moments.